Course Schedule

Class Date Subject Reading/Tutorials Homework Assign. #
1 Aug 29 Introduction Reading questions
are not required.
#.# = PDC Textbook
SP# = Special Problems
2 Aug 31 Programming Introduction 1. Python Intro
2. Python If Else
3. Python Functions
4. Python Loops
Info Sheet,
Quiz
1
3 Sept 2 Dynamic Modeling 1. Python Arrays
2. Python Plots
3. Python ODEs
Quiz 2
M 5 Labor Day Holiday
4 W 7 Dynamic Modeling Simulink Intro,
Simulink Sources,
Simulink Sinks
SP1 3
5 F 9 Control Laws P-only control 1 (PDC), Simulink Control Loop SP2
Quiz
4
6 M 12 Dynamic Modeling (cont.) 6 (PPC) 1.6, 1.7, 1.8
Quiz
5
7 W 14 P-only control/PI control 7-9 (PPC), Simulink Two Tank Tutorial SP3
Quiz
6
8 F 16 PID control 10 (PPC), Simulink CSTR Tutorial SP4, SP5, Quiz 7
9 M 19 Valve Design 12.3.2-12.3.4 (PDC) SP6, Quiz 8
10 W 21 Process Equipment Ch9 (PDC) SP8, Quiz 9
11 F 23 Modeling
Review
12.6-12.7 (PDC), Valve Design 9.1, 9.4 (Hints for 9.4), Quiz 10
12 M 26 Exam #1 In Class SP7
Exam #1 Part I In Class, Part II portion take-home
11
13 W 28 Modeling 2.1-2.3 (PDC) Take-home Portion of Exam Due at 8 PM (turn in on Learning Suite)
14 F 30 Modeling (contin) 2.4-2.5 (PDC) Lab #1 Preliminary Plan In Class 12
15 Oct 3 Linearization 4.3 (PDC) 2.4 (Help), 2.10 (Help), (See Hints) 13
16 W 5 Laplace Transforms 3.1-3.4 (PDC) SP9, Quiz 14
17 F 7 Laplace Trans. (contin) 3.5 (PDC) 3.4 (See Hints), 3.6a,c, 3.7a,c, Quiz 15
18 M 10 Transfer Functions 4.1-4.2 (PDC) 3.6b, 3.9, 3.17 (See Hints) 16
19 W 12 Trans Func/First Order Sys 5.1-5.2 (PDC) 4.2, 4.7, 4.10 (See Hints) 17
20 F 14 First/Second Order Sys.Solve Energy Balance with MATLAB Lab #1 Work Session
21 M 17 Industrial Guest Speaker Lab #1 Work Session
22 W 19 More Complicated Systems 5.3-5.4 (PDC) Lab #1 Due
23 F 21 Review for Practice Exam 6.1-6.4 (PDC) 5.5, 5.14, 5.15 (See Hints) 18
24 M 24 Review Session for Exam #2 Review 6.2, 6.7 (See Hints) (Excel data file) 19
25 W 26 Practice Exam (in class) as HW 21 7 (PDC) SP10 20
26 F 28 Optimization 8.1-8.3 (PDC), Engineering Design Optimization in MATLAB Exam #2 in Testing Center (Th-Tu)
27 M 31 Controller Transfer Functions and Block Diagrams
28 Nov 2 Closed Loop Systems 11.1 (PDC) SP11 22
29 F 4 Closed Loop Systems 11.2 (PDC) 11.11, Homework Help, Quiz 23
30 M 7 Statistical Process Control 11.3 (PDC) 11.7,11.10 (See Hints) 24
31 W 9 Stability Analysis 11.4 (PDC) SP12, Quiz 25
32 F 11 State Space Design 12.1-12.3 (PDC), Appendix C, State Space Modeling in MATLAB 11.14 (See Hints), In Class Project Quiz #1 26
33 M 14 Model Predictive Control 20 (PDC) SP13 27
34 W 16 Nonlinear Modeling and Optimization 20 (PDC) Guest Lecture: Dale Smith
35 F 18 Cascade Control 18.1-18.6 (PPC) 16.1 (PDC) Work on Lab Project, In Class Project Quiz #2
36 M 21 Cascade Control 18.7-18.8 (PPC) Work on Lab Project
37 T* 22 Special Topics Lab Project Work Session
W 23 No Class
F 25 Thanksgiving Holiday
38 M 28 Safety Lab Project
39 W 30 Feedforward Control 19 (PPC) SP14 28
40 Dec 2 Controller Interaction
Distillation Control
20 (PPC)In Class Project Quiz #329
41 M 5 Review Problem #1 Help Video

Problem #2 Video - Solution
Problem #2 Online

Problem #2 Dynamic Solution
Problem #2 Files
In Class Exercise
42 W 7 Review Lab #2 Written Report (2 Pages and 5 Min Presentation)
T 13 Final Exam from 2:30-5:30pm 256 CB